I am relatively new to meditation, I have been doing mindfulness of breathing for past 3 months but for some few weeks when I am in meditation session after few minutes the area of forehead and eyes become very heavy and I feel a force is pulling that area. Please give any suggestions about it, is it normal to feel heaviness or something is wrong in my meditation, I always keep my mind-body relax in session.

Hello Amit!Do you have your eyes open or closed while meditating? Prefer open and try to "focus" higher and not towards the ground so much.Have you been getting enough sleep lately? If not, then get plenty of rest.What time are the sessions? Try to do them earlier and not nighttime when you may be tired.

Thanks a lot for your reply I appreciate it a lot. I do meditation in the morning and in evening with eyes closed , yes I get proper sleep. I have read that when you do meditation and the energy starts to flow u feel the heaviness in head region but in my case after the session I feel the heaviness for long time even at work.

amit.sharma623 wrote:Thanks a lot for your reply I appreciate it a lot. I do meditation in the morning and in evening with eyes closed , yes I get proper sleep. I have read that when you do meditation and the energy starts to flow u feel the heaviness in head region but in my case after the session I feel the heaviness for long time even at work.

hello i have to say that your meditation is going very goodlet me correct myself the heaviness is earth elementthe pulling together is the water elementthe function of water element is to hold matter together or make them looseyou should concentrate on spreading what ever you experiencing , all over the body using breathtry to get element/s balance once you there, let go of the elements and focus on balanceonce you there, let go of the focusthe next step would be letting go of the balancemetta

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I am relatively new to meditation, I have been doing mindfulness of breathing for past 3 months but for some few weeks when I am in meditation session after few minutes the area of forehead and eyes become very heavy and I feel a force is pulling that area. Please give any suggestions about it, is it normal to feel heaviness or something is wrong in my meditation, I always keep my mind-body relax in session.

Please share some experience and advice on this issue.

Regards Amit

Hi Amit, good to hear from you, the important thing is to keep at it. I have experience of this and of being easily startled. It is a symptom of mental dullness during the meditation session. Remedies for it are to make sure your posture is ok and nice and straight. if this doesn't help make sure you are wearing loose cool clothing, open a window or door to allow a light breeze into the room. if this doesn't work take a damp cool facecloth and rub it on your face or splash cold water onto your face. if that fails just take a short break and come back to it later.

Reflecting on attaining a precious human life, preciousness of dharma, of ability and leisure to practice etc. helps uplift the mind, keeping your eyes slightly open may help, just let them relax into being slightly open gazing down sort of along the angle of your nose but not focusing on anything, also this short visualization may help - visualize a white lotus at heart level at center of chest, just a simple 4 petal lotus with a very bright small white light on top of the lotus about the size of a pea, stabilize that a bit especially the brightness of it and then visualize the little white light shooting up from the lotus through the top of your head and way up into space and rest in that, repeat as necessary. To counteract excitement reflect on karma and the unsatisfactoriness of samsara, this has a tendency to depress the mind, or visualize an upside down black lotus at heart level with a small black drop on it and shoot the black drop down through your body and into the ground.Also raising the gaze counteracts lethargy and lowering it counteracts excitement.To counteract lethargy if meditating on a visualization raise the focus to upper part of visualization, to counteract excitement lower focus to lower part for a while.

The nonexistence of the transcendence of suffering is what the protector of the world has taught as the transcendenceof suffering.Knots tied on spaceare untied by space itself.

May I never be seperated from perfect masters in all lives,and delightfully experiencing the magnificent dharma,completing all qualities of the stages of the pathsmay I quickly attain the state of Vajradhara